Dr. Violet Howard builds a research AI agent without code using OpenRouter and Perplexity. She queries the agent about sleep optimization and gets back a detailed report with 20 source documents, showing how deep research takes longer than a simple web search.
This AI agent can research anything that you want. So before we hop into NN and start building, I just wanted to real quick zoom out and tell you guys at a high level what we're doing today. So there are two services that we're going to have to access. OpenRouter lets us connect to different AI models. So this is going to serve as the brain for our research agent. And then we're also going to connect to a tool called Perplexity, which is kind of like a ChatGPT research tool on steroids. And now we're going to go and connect that first thing that I talked about, which is OpenRouter, in order to give our AI agent a brain. So right here, chat model, I'm going to click on the plus. And at the bottom over here, I'm going to choose OpenRouter chat model. But now that we've connected to OpenRouter, I can choose from a ton of different chat models. As you can see, we have OpenAI's models, we have Perplexity models, we have Qwen, we have Anthropic, we have Google. Now we need to add our research tool. So I'm going to click on this plus button right under tool, and I'm just going to search for Perplexity. So I'm going to send off this very broad question where I said, how can I optimize my sleep? We're gonna see that it's smart enough to use Perplexity. Right now it's doing its deep research. I'll check back in with you guys when we get that report about how to optimize sleep. All right, so that just finished up. And keep in mind, if you're doing deep research, it's gonna take a little longer than if you do more of a basic web search. But as you can see, we basically have this full report right here where it's telling us things like temperature or, you know, what you can do before bed in order to maintain a consistent sleep schedule, um, different relaxation routines, diet, exercise, all this kind of stuff. And if we click into the Perplexity tool, we can basically see all of the different sources that it used. So you can see here it searched through 20 sources. If you wanna watch the full breakdown, click on that play button right here and I'll see you guys over there.
